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Not my intention at all.

To clarify, the law WAS awful, but when this was posted here on HN it was already announced that the only thing that PSD (opposing political party) was willing to approve was the use body-cams and wildfires surveillance, and that the CNPD had already deem it unconstitutional.

As it stands now (and it might change, obviously) it seems like none of the "backdoors" will make it to the final law.

So my argument is that this is a non-issue at the moment, but again, it might change because #politics.

And I can't find a source for this, but from what I remember this law was put forward after we had some security issues in the bar areas of Porto and Lisbon, and the police requested more video surveillance to fix it. I believe the Data Protection Commission didn't approved it, so now here we are.